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Clean, drinkable water will become a commodity. It will cost more than fuel.

@5By5Creativity @SamaHoole @Elizabe25842951 How random is that?!?

@SamaHoole @Elizabe25842951 They keep the grass tidy on my grandfather’s grave in the churchyard of St Tudno’s on the Great Orme. GOATs.

In 1837, the Shah of Persia gave Queen Victoria a small herd of Kashmir goats as a coronation gift. She kept them at Windsor for a while, then, for reasons lost to history, sent some of them to live on the Great Orme, a limestone headland sticking out of the North Wales coast like a thumb pointing at Ireland. That was 189 years ago. The goats are still there. Nobody fed them. Nobody bred them. Nobody asked them to stay. They simply did, because the Great Orme is windswept, salt-blasted, vertical in places, and entirely covered in the kind of scrub that goats consider an invitation rather than an obstacle. There are now around two hundred of them. Pure white, slightly mad-looking, technically still the property of the Crown, which has shown no particular interest in collecting. During the 2020 lockdown, when the streets of Llandudno emptied, the goats came down off the headland and took the town. They wandered the high street. They ate the hedges of the Premier Inn. They blocked traffic on Mostyn Street and looked at drivers with the calm assurance of animals whose ancestors used to graze with the legions of Cyrus the Great. A photograph of one of them standing outside a closed pharmacy went around the world. The goats did not pose for it. The goats were checking whether the pharmacy had hedges. It did not. The goats moved on. The Royal Welsh Fusiliers' regimental mascot is still drawn from this herd. The Crown Prince of Britain is, technically, the goats' landlord. The goats have not been informed. The goats are on the Great Orme. They will outlast the Premier Inn. They will outlast most of us. They are not asking for anything. They never were.

There's a plant in eastern forests that looks like it gave up on being a plant. Ghost pipe (Monotropa uniflora) is white. Bone white. No green anywhere on it. It has no chlorophyll, doesn't photosynthesize, and doesn't need sunlight to survive. You'll find it in the deepest shade of mature forests, pushing up through the leaf litter like a small pale candle. So how does it eat? It steals. Ghost pipe taps into the underground fungal networks that connect tree roots, and it siphons sugar from those networks. The fungi got that sugar from the trees they're symbiotic with. The trees made it through photosynthesis. Ghost pipe is essentially mooching off oak trees through a fungal middleman, several biological steps removed from the sun it decided not to bother with. It's a flowering plant, fully evolved, that opted out of the entire plant business model. It produces seeds and pollen like any other wildflower. It just decided sugar was easier to take than to make. If you find one on a hike, don't pick it. They turn black within hours of being touched, and the populations are slow to regenerate. Just notice it and move on.

Dear Leaders of the Free World, Have none of you heard the phrase "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me"?

@Lilliputty @John_Hudson Oh my. Several female reporters would say otherwise.

@John_Hudson It's my impression that President Trump is generally courteous and complementary to everyone except criminals and would be assassins. It's what we used to think of as good manners.

can't believe that just happened: Trump got a NASA question and deferred to NASA administrator Jared Isaacman, saying "the best man to tell you that is the man sitting right over here. You heard that question with those beautiful ears of yours ... He's got super hearing"

On this day in 1942, Lucy Maud Montgomery died. Born in 1874 in New London, PEI, she wrote 20 novels, and over 1,000 short stories and poems. Her most famous book is Anne of Green Gables, which has sold over 50 million copies and been translated into 36 languages.

Signs of ADHD in women 1. Easily overstimulated by noise (a barking dog, a crying baby, music in the background) 2. Motivation swings between extreme productivity and zero energy 3. A constant mental overload, like having countless tabs open at once 4. Social exhaustion even great nights out require days to recover 5. Replying to messages only when the energy hits… or not at all 6. Staying up late despite being exhausted (hello, revenge bedtime procrastination)

On April 19, 1904, a night watchman spotted a fire coming from Toronto's E&S Currie Neck Wear Factory while out on a night patrol. Fueled by high winds, the fire destroyed over 100 buildings by the time it was out. This is the story of The Great Toronto Fire. 🧵 1/8

The late night CBC send off in the 1980s. Remember?

@addemslit @popculturw Get a poop mail in kit. Cheaper and if no concerns, you saved a lot of cash.

@popculturw Honestly, the biggest reason I’m glad this happened is I’ve had medical issues the past two years. My insurance doesn’t cover cancer screening, and I need to get a colonoscopy i think. Need to start making regular visits now and finally figure out what’s wrong with my body

I can’t believe what I just received

Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth. #ApostolicJourney #Cameroon vatican.va/content/leo-xi…

@thegreyhumanoi @TimurNegru When did Sapin change? The tax laws are why celebs like Sean Connery and the Beckhams have primary residences.

@TimurNegru Unless you’re on a pension, never become a resident of Italy. They’re going to want a large slice of your global income and capital gains. It’s the same with Spain.

The cat's out of the bag. Full details on our Tuscany property retreat are live. 5 days in Val di Chiana in October, 16 people max. You'll do property viewings, sit with Italian lawyers and tax advisors, have a wine lunch with local producers, cook at the villa and so on. And there's no better region to do it in than Tuscany. We built this for people who've been thinking about buying in Italy for a while but never really knew where to start. Maybe you've bookmarked some listings, you've had the conversation over dinner a hundred times. This is the thing that finally gives you a clear answer either way. Early bird pricing ends April 30 and see link in comments for more details. Also feel free to dm me in case of any questions.

At 11:40 p.m. on April 14, 1912, the Titanic struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic. Within a few hours, she was at the bottom of the ocean. Among the survivors and dead were many Canadians and soon-to-be Canadians. Here are just a few of those Canadians. 🧵 1/15

Great information. Dad told me never to get below a quarter tank, but never said why.

Archie Belaney, a British man who called himself Grey Owl, became famous as a conservationist, but it was Anahareo who turned him to that path. Her story is often overlooked, but she was an author, conservationist, prospector and more. This is her story. 🧵1/12

Those who pray are aware of their own limitations; they do not kill or threaten with death. Instead, death enslaves those who have turned their backs on the living God, turning themselves and their own power into a mute, blind and deaf idol (Ps 115:4–8), to which they sacrifice every value, demanding that the whole world bend its knee. Enough of the idolatry of self and money! Enough of the display of power! Enough of war! True strength is shown in serving life. #Peace

This is very interesting.

@RazeFeed @NASA Oh my gosh...you can 'see' the rings!

@NASA You can see Mars , Neptune, and Saturn.

Hello, Moon. It’s great to be back. Here’s a taste of what the Artemis II astronauts photographed during their flight around the Moon. Check out more photos from the mission: nasa.gov/artemis-ii-mul…

@rachelvscott I'm sorry...the Preaident started a was with Iran as a TEST to NATO?

The president tells me he was testing NATO. "This was a test for NATO, I didn't need them, but I wanted to test them.” “I said, I'd love to have you guys get involved. And they said, well, we can't do it. I said, Oh, that's okay. I didn't even give him a hard sell. They probably said, Oh, he's a terrible salesman. Because all I did say, love to have you be involved.” “I was doing that as a test. I didn't need that, right? They're a paper tiger. Paper Tiger. They have no ships. They have no nothing, and Putin has zero fear of them," he said. "But I did it as a test."

Spoke with President Trump. He told me the conflict should be over in days, not weeks but if no deal is made he’s blowing up the whole country with “very little” off the table. "If happens, it happens. And if it doesn't, we're blowing up the whole country,” he said. I asked if there’s anything off limits. “Very little,” he said.

@GlobalGhost137 @Khanstillday It shouldn't matter if it 0.01% or 100%. They are humans. JAIL is the punishment. Anything above that is punitive & cruel. Human rights apply to everyone.

@Khanstillday 7-8% of prisons are privately owned. But the Left would have you believe that number is 100%.

The most underrated Denzel Washington movie!! "Where's the court for white folks" 😅